Isn't that last year's news? I thought all the timberwork had been removed from Tunnel Hill etc. and there was new signage to riders (and walkers) giving guidance on what to do if you encounter army personnel.

Well, there's certainly going to be an increase in exercises on Salisbury Plain due to troops being withdrawn from Germany, afaik.

There's loads of MXers and 4x4ers in Wiltshire and they've helped out with new signage on the Plain. I guess that's a sign that they enjoy good relations with the MOD and will continue to trash the trails use the trails.

Doesn't seem to have diminished the Trolls night rides on the rare occasions I have the chance to get out. Would be a shame if it did disapear as it's great riding and relatively unknown/ignored by the masses who just default to Swinley or the Peaslake.

There's loads of MXers and 4x4ers in Wiltshire and they've helped out with new signage on the Plain. I guess that's a sign that they enjoy good relations with the MOD and will continue to trash the trails use the trails.

I doubt there's any MXers at all, no motocross riders I know find greenlaning remotely interesting. But still, damn those 100kg motorbikes, I bet all the military tanks and trucks trying to use Salisbury plain are always getting stuck in their ruts.

I doubt there's any MXers at all, no motocross riders I know find greenlaning remotely interesting.

Why bother being pedantic?

I don't know of any mountainbikers using the trails either, just cyclists (theres no mountain?).

Appart from a slightly lower compression piston, revised gearing, softer springs and damping (i.e. all internal changes so far) and a headlamp and a brake light, there's no difference between a WR450F and a YR450F. To anyone watching it go past it's impossible to tell the difference. And to a member of the public a XT(whatever capacity theyre at now) probably looks exactly the same too!

I don't know of any mountainbikers using the trails either, just cyclists (theres no mountain?).

Appart from a slightly lower compression piston, revised gearing, softer springs and damping (i.e. all internal changes so far) and a headlamp and a brake light, there's no difference between a WR450F and a YR450F. To anyone watching it go past it's impossible to tell the difference. And to a member of the public a XT(whatever capacity theyre at now) probably looks exactly the same too!

Well you wouldn't call someone out pony trekking a steeplechaser, despite the horse having 4 legs, nor someone out rambling as a fell runner despite etc. Trail riding is pony trekking on a motor bike. The only real difference being (from my experience) that pony trekking doesn't require you to pick the horse up and kick start it several times per mile.

Well you wouldn't call someone out pony trekking a steeplechaser, despite the horse having 4 legs,

No but you would call them both horse riders.

In the same way as MX is the coloquial term for off road biking.

And mountain biking is the coloquial term for off road cycling.

Saying there's not a problem with MX bikes on "insert location with multiple user groups in percieved conflict here" is like saying theres not a problem with mountain biking on the surrey hills because there are no mountains so by definition no problem!

Err, motocross is a very specific form of racing and far from a generic term for "off road biking". I suppose if you are young enough to accept the term "biking" then "off road biking" would be the generic term. But then, by definition, green laning is not off road.